"You never ask me to pick you up," Jesse mutters, his wolf walking a jealous path back and forth in his soul as he comes to stand close to his mate and his friend.

"Yes, but you're significantly more delicate," Midnight says with a happy sigh, leaning forward to pat Jesse on the head. He scowls and shoves her hand away. "All right, time's wasting," Jackson says, nodding up to Midnight. "To the cages?"

"To the cages!" she says, delighted, reaching a hand out for Jesse. And when Jesse – still scowling - petulantly reaches out to take her hand, Midnight vanishes

them away.

"Okay, so," I say, clapping my hands together and then turning for Pippa. "I need your help especially right now, Pips."

Pippa looks at me with wide eyes. "What on earth am I going to do!?"

"You're going to get the antidote!"

our feet. I sigh, starting to get frustrated, needing them all to just get over their shock and on board

the antidote is?" Elias asks, stepping

poison is not...currently relevant," I say, waving a hand to dismiss the question. "And I

looking again down at Gabriel,

chemist," Ben says in explanation, resting his fingertips against his temples in a probably-vain attempt to keep his sanity. "Especially in contexts such as this. If she poisoned Gabriel, she probably knows precisely what she poisoned him with,

that is very true. "Yup, I can fix him! But Pippa, I need you to go to

shocked, so I grab her hand and look meaningfully between Ben and Elias.

then I use my dark powers to tilt back to

get there I move for the door, already starting to tell my friend what to say to the doctor to request the kit. But Pippa pulls hard on my hand, tugging

is not a woman who is scared for her childhood friend asking me. Quickly, Pippa shakes her head, her mouth a thin line. "Elias is next in line to the throne behind him, Ariel," she snaps. "And I do not want to be a

fast, though it will take him some time to recover

eyes moving towards the door, and then back to me. She raises her chin, her jaw

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